**Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC of this collection!**

While Sophie Diener is compared to Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace I find her to be WAY closer to Amanda Lovelace but with a little more depth.

I'm not a tik-tokker so I hadn't heard of Diener before seeing this collection on NetGalley - I'm so glad I checked it out. This collection made me nostalgic for the way things felt when I was a teenager, but not even just the good parts. It almost made me miss heartbreak and feeling big emotions that felt like the end of the world but ended up just being Friday.

Being from a small town, a lot of these poems resonated with me in specific ways as well. Going home after years of being away and running into old high school friends, and the ebbs and flows of the neighborhood over time where everyone knows everyone.

Definitely check this one out if you like feeling big things from poems, and not just the happy stuff! Hit that preorder button to support a debut poetry collection!

This book is far outside of my preferred genre to read. I only picked this up because our blog was doing a prompt challenge and one of the prompts was, “A book outside of your normal genre”. So I saw this book and decided to try it out.

I thought the poems were well-written and I could tell that there was a lot of emotion behind them. My only problem was that I felt like this book was for a younger audience. So in reality, I shouldn’t have picked it up in the first place. The poems were about an angst teenage girl who got broken up with and how her life will never be the same. I really couldn’t handle some of the poems because they just wanted to make me cringe.

Despite all that, I still gave it 3 stars because I feel like 15 to 18-year-olds would really like this book. There wasn’t anything wrong with the poems, I just couldn’t relate to them and just felt like I wasn’t the intended audience.

A beautiful little collection of poems that feel like a warm hug, definitely a sweet book to keep tucked away for when you need a pick me up.

Thank you to the author Sophie Diener, publishers St. Martin's Press and SMPGInfluencers, and as always NetGalley, for an early access widget for this beautiful poetry collection, SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, MAYBE.

From On the Urge to Isolate p54

"The sky
will roar and scream and cry
and I
will not call her dramatic...."

I truly love contemporary minimalist poetry, but I can be pretty picky about it. I feel like every poet starts off trying to emulate Rupi Kaur, whom I adore, but whose style and tone I consider inimitable. What I love about this new collection from TikTok sensation Sophie Diener is that if she took any lesson at all from Rupi, it was to be vulnerable and reveal her own voice.

I found the poems somewhat repetitive at times, but at others, they ache with beauty. Here is a favorite:

Easy to Love p50

"I’m bending and breaking.
I’m easy to love.
I can’t look in the mirror.
I’m just what he wants.
I’m passing all his tests.
I love getting good grades.
I’m jumping through dog hoops.
I’m digging a deep grave.
I shrink beneath sweaters.
I shed all my skin.
I sink to the floorboards.
I’m rearranged by him.
My heart gets discarded.
She tugs on my sleeve.
Her eyes are accusing.
She asks, What about me?"

A wonderful collection for fans of contemporary minimalism or readers new to poetry in any form. This accessible collection should appeal to a great range of poetry lovers.

Rating: ✨️✨️✨️✨️.25 / 5
Recommend? Yes!
Finished: June 16 2023
Format: Advance Digital, NetGalley, SMPGI

I was sooooo excited for this book and I am so sad that I did not like it. I gave loved some of Sophie's poems on instagram and other social media. Unfortunately this book just did not hit for me. I could not emotionally connect to this collection and I am so disappointed.

What a sucker punch of an emotional little book. This collection focuses on relationships, the rise and fall of love, and the aftermath that comes from putting yourself out there to be loved by others. There is a freshness from this collection where you can tell the author, Sophie has been collecting these over the years and working on exploring her feelings through this art form.

While there were a variety of topics that she explored I felt a strong connection to those that were about mental health and her struggles with panic attacks. The ones I loved most were:
1. Save me
2. I Hope Today is Kind to You
3. Seasons
4. Panic Attacks
5. You Are Safe

These were some of her most raw and emotionally charged poems in the collection, you can feel her pain and the growth that she was experiencing during this time of her life. I hope to keep these poems in my collection for years to come so I can come back to them time and time again and take from them when life gets hard.

Final Thoughts: I would recommend this collection to anyone who is wanting to experience a multitude of emotions in a tiny package. It was a wonderful read that kept me entertained!

TW: panic attacks, heartbreak

Disclaimer:
Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

This book is perfect for fans of Taylor Swift, romcom films, and sad rainy days. Sophie Diener perfectly describes the hopelessness of heartbreak in a lyrical, melancholic way. All of the poems fit together so well and create an intimate roadmap of vulnerable feelings. The way that Diener describes abusive relationships and manipulative partners made me feel so seen and validated. This book hit straight to my core and tempered my heart.

Some lines that stayed with me long after reading:

- "I promise you it's okay. No one is mad at you."
- "And I keep reading your favorite book-the one I swore I would not like-and when I finally close its cover, it's all filled with underlines."
- "You are not behind...There's no line to cross by twenty-three or thirty..."
- "You meet me at bookstores. You make me black tea. I wear your best sweaters. Nobody wants flings in September, October, November."
- "It takes me one whole year and six months to realize that I am not the protagonist."
- "I'm passing all his tests. I love getting good grades."
- "There are ghosts that like to hang around the house."

Beautifully written…vivid imagery…raw & real

Young love, sadness, heartbreak, loss, loneliness, hope, peace, acceptance, self-growth

Having never been in a relationship, this book evoked sadness…my heart ached at a few scenes. Some of the poems, such as the ones that center around the feelings of anxiety, I was able to relate more to while others in the book, not as much.

Thank you to St Martin’s Press and Netgalley for giving me an advanced copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
I had not heard Sophie Diener before opening this book, but I am definitely a fan now!
The way she weaves poems about mental health, self-concept, heartbreak, loss, and grief is lyrical—beautiful. This is a quick read that resonates with you if you’ve ever felt alone, not enough, anxious, or getting out of a relationship.
Definitely a great read for poetry lovers!

This book of poems is very good, but probably not geared toward a middle-aged married woman. I feel the author’s angst and appreciate her words.

This was very real. This collection shows love, misery, self loathing, and self love throughout several years. Some of these poems were VERY relatable.

A humble collection of poetry everyone can recognize themselves in. The author shares her life's experiences of losing a first love, life separating you from a young adult love, how to go on with heartbreak, accept yourself for who you are, learn to be comfortable with yourself, and just take life as a fun experience you accept as a challenge and give your best. This is inspiring even though a little depressing. I saved a few poems to read to my daughters when it will be time to try to put words into feelings and help them go through tough times.

Thank you to the publisher and the author for this e-ARC in exchange of my honest opinion.

Wow, I was truly not expecting to be affected as much as I was while reading this collection of poetry. I felt like what I was going through was taken out of my soul and put onto paper so it could make more sense. I really resonated with the first half of the book and less so with the last half, however it was still a great complete read.

The collection transitions so well from love to heartbreak, then to self-discovery and self-love and acceptance. It was a very nice fluid story told through rhyme. It felt like I was hearing Taylor Swift read slam poetry (*snaps*).

Two of my favorite bit of the entire collection are below. I tear up even typing them.

Don't Be a Stranger:
You smile weakly and say to me, "don't be a stranger,"
and I nod my head knowing that's what I'll become.
Still, there will always be something between us-
a quiet recognition of what once was."

"Things do not have to last forever to have been meant to be."

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and the author for an opportunity to read and review this book before its publishing date. Opinions are my own.

thank you NetGalley for this arc.
this poetry book was nice,
it had good rhyming at times & it had good themes of love, loss, and growth. this book wasn’t bad, it was just average to me. Maybe if i had read it at a different point in my life i would’ve liked this book more? i just found it to be all over the place at times and i just couldn’t keep up with what the author was talking about with the constant topic switching. this book was unfortunately not for me, but if you enjoy simply written poetry with lots of mental health discussion, you might enjoy this.

This collection explores first love and how it ends. That it never leaves you no matter how you move one. Memories will always be there. Reminder to be kind to yourself in the end.
One thing I gotta say is that the running theme was the first love and how it ended how it hurts multiple times in different ways that made it seem repetitive but other than that I enjoyed the collection.
The writing was amazing and the common. Theme through out.
I breezed through this and enjoy what I read.

I love poetry like this - raw emotions and brutal honesty. A great addition to anyone's poetry shelves.

Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin's, and the author for the eARC in exchange for my review.

I first heard about Sophie Diener after I received an email from NetGalley, where they offered the opportunity for me to read her poetry collection, "Someone Somewhere Maybe." While I don't read much poetry, I enjoyed reading her pieces, and found many of them relatable to experiences I've had in my life so far. I have a good feeling countless others will feel the same or similar once they read this!

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the opportunity to read this digital ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Five stars! Gosh, I love Sophie's writing - I found her ages ago on TikTok and have even gotten some of her work on Etsy and framed in my office just because I love it so much.

She writes with such ease and most of it hits so close to home. I really enjoyed how the poetry was compiled from the early stages to now and you can see the growth and natural maturing we experience as we go through life a little bit more.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read Sophie's poems. I will be pre-ordering Someone Somewhere Maybe, too, as I just need this on my bookshelf to grab every once in a while.

I think it’s hard to review poetry because of how intimate poetry is. Someone spilling their heart, emotions, experiences on paper to share with others in hope they might see them or connect.

Well Someone Somewhere Maybe really connected with me. I bawled my eyes out reading this book of poetry about falling in love, the heartbreak and growing. I felt so seen while reading this book and I just had to cry because it also made me realize some stuff about myself.

Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday for providing me with an arc. These views are my own.

When I read this was for fans of Rupi Kaur & Amanda Lovelace, I knew I wanted to read it. Thank you to St. Martin's Press & NetGalley for the e-ARC. Dieners' poetry is definitely reminiscent to their likes. The themes of love, heartbreak, growth, grief, acceptance and anxiety are in my opinion, written with a youthful approach however with a full grasp of all those emotions and feelings can encompass. The longer poems are also reminiscent of musical lyrics.

Just like with other poet's, you're reading the exposure of Dieners heart, feelings and soul. Some are extremely revealing and gut wrenching, others are a memory you could have shared or relate to through personal experience.

It is a very quick and easy read and I would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a little mantra/affirmation style poetry read!